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THE 


OAHU   COLLEGE 


AT   THE 


SANDWICH  ISLANDS 


BOSTON: 

PRESS    OF    T.    E.MARVIN,    11    CONGRESS    STREET. 
1856. 


L/mVersfry  oj  California  •  Berkeley 

GIFT  OF 

THE  FRIENDS  OF  THE  BANCROFT  LIBRARY 


THE   OAHU   COLLEGE. 


IN  the  year  1841,  a  school  was  commenced,  for  the 
children  of  missionaries,  at  Punahou,  near  Honolulu, 
Sandwich  Islands.  Five  years  ago,  it  was  opened  to 
others  besides  the  children  of  missionaries.  The  num- 
ber of  pupils  has  varied  from  thirty  to  sixty,  and  the 
whole  number  of  pupils,  up  to  September,  1854,  was  one 
hundred  and  twenty-two.  In  May,  1853,  the  Hawaiian 
Government  incorporated  twelve  persons,  all  of  them 
except  one  either  then  or  formerly  connected  with  the 
mission,  as  a  corporate  body  by  the  name  of  "  The 
Trustees  of  the  Punahou  School  and  Oahu  College" 
It  is  probable  that  the  legal  name  of  the  institution  will 
be  shortened,  and  that  it  will  be  called  simply  the  "  Oahu 
College." 

The  charter  recognizes  the  design  of  the  institution  to 
be  "  the  training  of  youth  in  the  various  branches  of  a 
Christian  education,  teaching  them  sound  and  useful 
knowledge."  It  further  states,  that,  "  as  it  is  reasonable 
that  the  Christian  education  should  be  in  conformity  to 
the  general  views  of  the  founders  and  patrons  of  the 
institution,  no  course  of  instruction  shall  be  deemed  law- 
ful in  said  institution,  which  is  not  accordant  with  the 
principles  of  Protestant  Evangelical  Christianity,  as  held 
by  that  body  of  Protestant  Christians  in  the  United  States 
of  America,  which  originated  the  Christian  mission  to 
the  Islands,  and  to  whose  labors  and  benevolent  contri- 


butions  the  people  of  these  Islands  are  so  greatly  indebt- 
ed." There  is  also  an  additional  security  for  the  institu- 
tion in  the  following  article,  namely, — "  Whenever  a 
vacancy  shall  occur  in  said  corporation,  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  Trustees  to  fill  the  same  with  all  reasonable 
and  convenient  dispatch.  And  every  new  election  shall 
be  immediately  made  known  to  the  Prudential  Commitee 
of  the  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign 
Missions,  and  be  subject  to  their  approval  or  rejection, 
and  this  power  of  revision  shall  be  continued  to  the 
American  Board  for  twenty  years  from  the  date  of  this 
charter." 

The  Sandwich  Islands  Christianized. 

The  effort  to  christianize  the  Sandwich  Islands,  was 
begun  in  the  year  1820,  and  has  succeeded  beyond  any 
similar  efforts  recorded  in  history.  In  the  year  1853,  a 
little  more  than  thirty  years  from  the  commencement  of 
the  mission,  the  Board  was  able  to  make  proclamation  in 
the  Annual  Report,  that  the  people  of  the  Sandwich 
Islands  had  become  a  Christian  nation.  The  proofs  then 
adduced  of  this  fact  were  beyond  all  controversy  ;  such 
as  entitled  the  Hawaiian  nation  to  the  Christian  name,  if 
any  people  on  earth  might  claim  it;  though  without  that 
intellectual  development  and  social  culture,  which  enter 
so  deeply  into  the  modern  idea  of  civilization.  But  even 
in  respect  to  these  things  a  vast  work  had  been  accom- 
plished. 

It  was  evident  to  the  Prudential  Committee,  as  early  as 
the  year  1848,  that  the  time  had  come  for  a  change  of  some 
sort  in  the  relations  of  the  missionaries  to  the  people  of  the 
Islands  and  to  the  Board.  They  saw  that  new  and  addi- 
tional motives  must  be  presented  to  induce  the  married 
missionaries  to  remain  -at  the  Islands,  or  the  greater  part 
of  them  might  feel  constrained  to  return  to  this  country 
within  a  few  years,  to  make  provision  for  their  children. 


This  was  not  owing  simply,  nor  chiefly,  to  the  number 
and  age  of  their  children,  (for  such  a  result  was  nowhere 
seen  in  the  older  missions  elsewhere,)  but  to  the  novel 
and  remarkable  relations,  at  that  time,  of  the  mission  to 
the  people  of  the  Sandwich  Islands. 

The  problem,  as  then  presented,  was,  how  to  give  scope 
to  the  parental  feelings  in  missionaries,  without  increasing 
burdens  and  expenses  that  could  not  be  borne  ;  though  it 
soon  appeared  that  there  was  really  a  higher  problem  to 
to  be  solved,  and  one  that  was  novel  in  missions,  namely, 
how  to  bring  the  mission  itself,  as  such,  to  a  termination, 
dissolving  its  relations  to  the  Board,  and  merging  its  mem- 
bers in  the  newly  created  Christian  community.  The 
first  problem  stated  came  first  in  the  order  of  time,  and 
it  involved  the  solution  of  the  other.  It  was,  how  to  con- 
vert the  Islands  into  the  home  of  the  missionaries,  (which 
the  peculiar  relation  of  the  Islands  to  the  commercial 
world  then  rendered  possible,)  and  the  missionaries  into 
citizens  and  pastors.  This  was  effected,  so  far  as  the 
action  of  the  Prudential  Committee  was  concerned,  by  a 
series  of  resolutions  made  public  in  the  Report  of  the 
Board  for  the  year  1849.  The  response  of  the  missiona- 
aries  was  in  general  favorable,  though  it  required  five 
years  to  complete  the  arrangement.  The  case  was 
unprecedented ;  there  was  no  experience ;  every  step 
had  to  be  considered  in  its  principles,  its  equity,  and  its 
expediency.  The  transition  was  at  length  effected,  and 
the  mission  was  merged  in  the  general  Christian  commu- 
nity of  the  Islands.  The  meeting  of  the  mission  in  May, 
1853,  was  its  last  meeting  in  its  associated,  corporate 
character  as  a  mission, — responsible,  as  such,  to  the 
Board,  controlling,  as  such,  the  operation*  of  its  members. 
The  relations  of  the  ministry  and  churches  of  the  Sand- 
wich Islands  towards  the  Board  and  its  patrons,  and 
towards  other  foreign  missions  and  the  Christian  church 


at  large,  then  became  those  of  an  independent  Christian 
community.  The  salaries  of  the  native  pastors,  the  cost 
of  church  buildings,  and  the  greater  part  of  the  cost  of 
schools,  were  to  be  met  (as  in  fact  they  have  been)  by 
the  natives.  So  was  the  support  of  Hawaiian  missiona- 
ries, whether  sent  to  Micronesia,  or  to  the  Marquesas 
Islands.  It  was  only  in  part,  however,  that  the  natives 
could  support  their  foreign  pastors.  The  Board,  in  this 
new  relation  of  things,  would  have  to  sustain  to  the  new 
Christian  community  a  relation  like  that,  which  the  Home 
Missionary  Society  sustains  to  the  Christian  community 
in  Oregon  or  California ;  and  it  might  be  necessary  to 
continue  this  relation  for  some  time. 

Native  College  at  Lahainaluna. 

The  first  important  step  taken  at  the  Islands  after  the 
mission  had  responded,  in  the  year  1849,  to  the  proposals 
of  the  Prudential  Committee,  was  the  transfer,  by  the 
Board,  of  the  native  Seminary  or  College  at  Lahainaluna 
to  the  Hawaiian  Government.  This  is  wholly  for  natives. 
The  transfer  was  made  on  the  condition,  that  the  institu- 
tion should  continue  to  cultivate  sound  literature  and 
science,  and  not  allow  to  be  taught  religious  doctrines 
contrary  to  those  heretofore  inculcated  by  the  mission. 
In  case  of  the  non-fulfillment  of  the  conditions,  the  whole 
property,  with  any  additions  and  improvements  made  upon 
the  premises,  was  to  revert  to  the  Board.  The  govern- 
ment have  since  sustained  two  clerical  professors  obtained 
from  the  company  of  missionaries,  and  the  institution 
answers  the  purposes  of  a  College  for  the  native  commu- 
nity. It  is  not  adapted,  however,  nor  can  it  be,  to  the 

wants  of  the  foreign  community. 

« 

Necessity  for  the  College  at  Punahou. 
The   Oahu   College   is  open  to  natives  speaking  the 
English  language  ;  but  it  is  especially  designed  for  pupils 


from  that  increasing  and  important  portion  of  the  Ha- 
waiian community,  which  is  of  foreign  origin.  This  of 
course  includes  those  who  have  heretofore  constituted  the 
mission.  These,  with  their  families,  must  be  regarded  as 
in  the  highest  degree  essential  to  the  religious  welfare  of 
the  Islands.  Their  children,  now  at  the  Islands  in  a 
course  of  education,  ^ot  including  those  too  young  for 
school,  nor  those  in  the  colleges  and  schools  of  the  United 
States,  number  one  hundred  and  forty-five.  To  remove 
even  a  considerable  portion  of  these  for  education  to  the 
United  States,  would  be  at  great  expense  and  inconve- 
nience, and  there  is  a  growing  conviction  among  the 
parents,  that  their  children  must  be  chiefly  educated  there. 
"  They  can  there,"  says  one  of  the  most  experienced  of 
the  parents,  "  be  under  parental  guardianship  and  home 
influences  ;  and  this  will  help  to  retain  both  parents  and 
children  in  the  field.  The  education  will  be  less  perfect 
than  in  the  United  States,  but  it  will  fit  them  better,  in 
some  respects,  to  labor  in  the  land  of  their  birth,  than  an 
education  in  a  foreign  country.  The  parents  will  seek 
an  education  for  their  children  elsewhere,  if  it  be  not 
provided  for  them  at  the  Islands ;  but  it  is  believed  that 
most  of  them  will  retain  their  children  there,  if  a  college 
be  there  provided." 

The  number  of  foreign  residents  and  their  descendants 
is  increasing  at  the  Sandwich  Islands.  An  intelligent 
glance  at  the  future  will  show,  that  this  enterprising  com- 
munity is  destined  to  exert  a  very  commanding  influence 
in  that  increasingly  important  part  of  the  world,  and  that 
the  necessity  of  its  being  well  educated  cannot  be  over- 
estimated. The  foreign  community  now  springing  up  at 
the  Sandwich  Islands  will  inevitably  shape  the  character 
and  destiny  of  the  whole  northern  Pacific.  The  mission- 
ary part  of  this  community  has  now  the  vantage  ground 
as  regards  all  good  influences,  and  with  the  divine  bless- 
1  * 


ing  is  able  to  mould  the  literary  and  religious  institutions 
of  the  Hawaiian  nation.  Religion,  just  now,  has  a  strong 
hold  on  those  Islands.  The  present  is,  therefore,  a  favor_- 
able  time  to  institute  a  College,  and  put  it  into  a  working 
condition. 

The  necessity  for  an  institution,  such  as  it  is  proposed 
to  make  of  the  Oahu  College,  is  one  of  the  most  obvious 
and  interesting  facts  now  presented  to  our  view  in  that 
part  of  the  world. 

1.  The  College  is  essential  to  the  development  and  con- 
tinued existence  of  the  Hawaiian  nation.  It  is  so  because 
the  missionary  portion  is  really  the  palladium  of  the 
nation,  and  because  a  College  is  essential  to  that  part  of 
the  community.  The  religious  foreign  community  cannot 
otherwise  long  continue  to  perform  its  functions.  It  must 
have  the  means  of  liberally  educating  its  children  on  the 
ground.  Without  a  College,  -its  moral,  social  and  civil 
influence  will  tend  constantly  to  decay.  This  most 
precious  Christian  influence,  now  rooted  on  the  Islands, 
now  no  longer  exotic,  needs  only  the  proper  culture  to 
perpetuate  itself.  The  cheapest  thing  we  can  do  for  the 
Islands  and  for  that  part  of  the  world,  is  to  furnish  this 
culture.  It  is  better  to  educate  our  ministry  there,  than 
tto  send  it  thither  from  these  remote  shores.  Indeed  we 
are  shut  up  to  this,  as  our  main  policy.  The  providential 
indications  are  perfectly  clear.  Through  the  grace  of 
<jod  and  the  gospel  of  his  Son,  all  the  means,  excepting 
such  as  are  pecuniary,  for  perpetuating  Christianity  at  the 
Islands,  are  already  there.  Mr.  Armstrong,  the  Minister 
of  Instruction  at  the  Islaads,  writing  to  one  of  the  Secre- 
taries of  the  American  Board  under  date  of  January  2, 
1856,  beats  this  remarkable  testimony  : — 

"  During  the  year  1855,  just  closed,"  he  says,  "  I 
visited  all  the  Islands,  and  every  missionary  station,  in 
the  course  of  my  official  duty,  and  had  good  opportunities 


for  seeing  how  the  brethren  conduct  the  affairs  of  their 
respective  stations,  and  the  success  that  has  crowned  their 
labors.  I  found  them  all  at  their  posts,  hard  at  work, 
watching  for  souls,  and  promoting  the  welfare  of  their 
people  in  various  ways.  As  a  class,  they  are  very  labo-. 
rious  and  self-denying,  and  the  advancement  of  their 
people  in  knowledge,  industry,  civilization  and  religion, 
is  the  best  evidence  of  their  success.  I  have  lived  for 
weeks  on  weeks  among  the  natives,  lodging  with  them  in 
their  huts,  partaking  of  their  homely  fare  and  sleeping  on 
their  mats ;  and  the  more  I  see  of  them,  the  more  I  bless 
God  for  what  he  has  done  for  them.  I  do  not  believe 
there  is  a  community  on  earth,  of  the  same  number,  more 
entirely  pervaded  by  the  blessed  gospel.  In  the  remotest 
corners  of  the  land,  I  find  a  Bible  and  Hymn-book  in 
nearly  every  house,  if  there  was  nothing  else." 

We  may  say  of  the  faithful  men,  who,  ceasing  to  be 
missionaries  in  the  technical  sense,  are  now  laboring  as 
pastors  of  churches,  superintendents  of  education,  or 
professors  in  the  native  College,  or  as  physicians,  teachers, 
editors,  or  Christian  merchants  : — "  Except  these  abide 
in  the  ship,  ye  cannot  be  saved."  Had  the  great  body  of 
these  men  left  the  Islands  in  the  year  1848,  the  native 
government  could  not  long  have  survived  the  catastrophe; 
and  now,  and  for  years  to  come,  they  will  be,  under  God, 
the  most  effectual  safeguard  the  Hawaiian  Government 
and  people  can  possibly  have.  Remaining  there,  with 
their  numerous  and  healthy  families  of  children,  and 
furnished  with  facilities  for  educating  those  children,  the 
government,  the  nation,  the  Islands  will  continue,  with 
the  ordinary  blessing  of  Heaven,  to  be  Christian,  evan- 
gelical, a  glorious  monument  of  the  triumphs  of  the 
gospel,  a  light  enlightening  the  benighted  groups  lying 
far  to  the  westward,  and  a  cause  for  admiring  gratitude 
to  the  whole  Christian  world  ! 


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Surely  results  like  these  are  worth  a  great  outlay  for 
their  preservation ;  but  this  cannot  be  effectually  done 
without  the  speedy  institution  of  a  College  at  the  Islands, 
where  a  portion  of  the  children  of  foreign  parents,  and 
some  of  the  more  promising  of  the  native  youth,  may 
receive  that  liberal  education  which  is  deemed  so  impor- 
tant in  this  country. 

2.  There  is  another  and  highly  interesting  view  of  the 
subject.  This  Christian  community  at  the  Sandwich 
Islands, — mixed  in  blood,  but  one  in  Christ, — should  be 
regarded  as  a  centre  of  light  and  influence  for  the  large 
number  of  inhabited  but  benighted  Islands  scattered  over 
the  far  arid  vast  WEST  of  the  Pacific  Ocean.  This  mis- 
sionary enterprise  in  the  insular  world  beyond,  besides  its 
intrinsic  importance,  is  among  the  necessary  means,  by 
its  reacting  influence,  of  raising  the  Hawaiian  churches 
to  the  point  of  self-support  and  self-control  ;  and  its  value, 
in  this  view,  is  already  delightfully  evident.  The  pecu- 
niary means  for  supporting  missionaries  in  Micronesia 
who  are  sent  from  the  United  States,  must  of  course 
come  in  great  measure  from  this  country  ;  but  the  sup- 
port of  missionaries  and  native  assistants  drawn  from 
the  Hawaiian  churches,  (as  well  as  much  of  the  labor 
connected  with  the  details  of  the  business,)  may  be 
thrown  upon  the  '  Hawaiian  Missionary  Society/  which 
is  independent  of  the  American  Board  ;  and  no  small 
portion  of  the  missionaries  may  at  length  be  obtained 
from  among  the  alumni  of  the  Oaliu  College.  Dr.  Gulick, 
one  of  the  first  missionaries  to  Micronesia,  is  the  son  of 
a  missionary  at  the  Sandwich  Islands,  though  educated  in 
the  United  States  ;  and  the  missionary  children  at  .the 
Islands  are  associated  together  to  provide  among  them- 
selves the  means  for  his  support.  When  the  missionary 
ship,  to  be  called  the  '  Morning-Star/  which  has  been 
requested  for  the  mission  in  Micronesia,  is  actually  in 


those  seas,  the  proposed  institution  for  educating  mission- 
aries inured  to  the  people  and  climate,  will  become  a  still 
more  valuable  auxiliary. 

* 

Thus  we  see,  that  the  reasonable  endowment  of  the 
Oahu  College  will  be  a  good  use  of  money  for  the  up- 
building of  Christ's  kingdom  at  the  Sandwich  Islands, 
and  for  extending  that  kingdom  through  the  islands  of  the 
great  ocean  beyond. 

Funds  and  Buildings  of  the  College. 
The  value  of  the  property  now  belonging  to  the  Oahu 
College,  derived   chiefly  through  the  American  Board,  is 
estimated  as  follows  : 

Three  hundred  acres  of  land,      ....  $9,000 

College  building,  two  stories,       ....  7,000 

Two  dwelling  houses, 6,000 

Twelve  lodging  rooms,         .         .         »        •        •  2,000 

Dining  room,  kitchen,  etc.,          ....  1,000 

Out- houses, 500 

Farming  implements,  herds,  etc.,         .         .         .  1,500 

Total $27,000 

The  land  on  which  the  buildings  stand  has  an  excellent 
and  valuable  spring  of  water,  sufficient  to  irrigate  it. 
There  are  one  hundred  acres  in  this  lot,  all  enclosed  by  a 
good  stone  wall,  and  in  part  under  cultivation.  Another 
hundred  acres  adjoining,  is  also  enclosed  with  a  stone 
wall,  and  is  devoted  to  pasturage.  Another  hundred 
acres  of  woodland  lies  about  two  miles  distant.  The 
buildings  will  suffice  for  the  present. 

An  observer,  familiar  with  the  college  edifices  of  the 
United  States,  may  hardly  be  able  to  recognize  a  College 
in  what  he  sees  at  Punahou.  But  what  there  is  surpasses 
what  were  the  visible  beginnings  of  either  Harvard,  or 
Yale.  Until  the  present  time,  moreover,  there  has  been 
only  a  preparatory  school.  The  first  college  class,  and 
that  a  small  one,  commences  the  present  year.  A  num- 


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her  of  young  men,  once  at  Punahou,  who  would  perhaps 
have  been  in  the  College  had  there  been  one,  are  at 
Williams,  Yale,  or  some  other  of  our  American  Colleges. 
Some  have  compleSd  their  preparations  for  life's  business, 
and  are  preachers,  missionaries,  merchants,  or  connected 
with  the  government  of  the  Islands. 

The  Endowment. 

The  cost  of  living  at  the  Sandwich  Islands  has  been 
materiallly  increased  by  the  settlement  and  mines  of 
California.  Just  at  present,  it  may  not  be  easy  to  bring 
the  expenses  of  a  family  at  Punahou  within  the  bounds 
recommended  for  the  salaries  of  the  officers  of  College. 
The  arrangement  for  salaries  should  be  based,  however, 
on  what  we  know  to  be  the  general  course  of  things  in 
the  world.  Fifteen  hundred  dollars,  with  the  use  of  a 
house,  is  thought  not  to  be  too  large  a  salary  for  the 
President  of  the  Oahu  College ;  and  twelve  hundred 
dollars,  with  the  use  of  a  house,  for  a  Professor.  The 
American  Board  will  pay  these  two  salaries  for  the  years 
1856  and  1857. 

The  Trustees  propose  to  raise  the  sum  of  fifty  thou- 
sand dollars.  This  is  not  too  large  a  beginning.  Of 
this  sum  the  Hawaiian  government  engages  to  give  ten 
thousand  dollars,  or  one  fifth  part;  on  condition  that  the 
remaining  forty  thousand  dollars  be  raised  before  July  6, 
1858,  and  that  the  King  have  the  right  of  nominating  two 
of  the  twelve  trustees  of  the  College.  The  Prudential 
Committee  have  voted  to  subscribe  five  thousand  dollars 
towards  the  endowment,  on  behalf  of  the  American 
Board,  payable  in  the  year  1858. 

It  should  be  understood  that,  excepting  the  duty  of 
approval  or  disapproval  in  respect  to  the  election  of  mem- 
bers on  the  Board  of  Trustees,  laid  upon  the  American 
Board  by  the  Charter  for  the  space  of  twenty  years,  that 


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Board  has  no  connection  whatever  with  the  College,  or 
control  of  its  proceedings.  The  College  is  an  indepen- 
dent institution,  sustaining  no  other  relation  to  the  Board, 
than  it  does  to  every  other  benefactor. 

The  Colleges  of  New  England  had  generally  some 
benevolent  patron  provided  for  them  by  Divine  Provi- 
dence;—  a  Harvard,  a  Yale,  a  Dartmouth,  a  Brown,  a 
Bowdoin,  a  Williams ;  and  the  Colleges  very  properly 
took  and  embalmed  their  names  in  the  memory  of  an 
enlightened  and  refined  Christian  community.  These 
provided  the  general  endowment.  Many  liberal  men 
also  founded  particular  professorships ;  or  gave  funds 
for  the  education  of  young  men  of  talents  and  character, 
without  the  means  of  obtaining  a  liberal  education.  May 
the  Lord  raise  up  such  benefactors  for  the  Oahu  College. 
That  has  grown,  as  the  New  England  Colleges  did,  out 
of  a  great  religious  movement  and  the  wonderful  blessing 
of  God  on  that  movement.  It  has  a  religious  object, 
and  is  controlled  by  a  religious  influence.  The  funds 
have  every  practicable  guard  from  perversion.  The  per- 
manent necessity  for  such  an  institution  is  apparent  in  the 
certainty  of  a  permanent,  rising,  influential  community 
on  those  admirably  situated  Islands.  The  independ- 
ence of  the  Hawaiian  Nation, — which,  under  present 
circumstances,  is  most  favorable  to  its  development, — is 
guaranteed  by  the  United  States,  Great  Britain  and 
France ;  and  the  presumption  of  its  falling  under  the 
dominion  of  a  power  foreign  to  us,  is  too  small  to  deserve 
notice  ;  and  the  influence  of  the  College  itself,  as  already 
described,  will  be  one  of  the  most  effectual  guards  against 
such  a  result.  There  is  not  a  finer  climate  in  all  the 
world.  Were  it  true,  that  the  native  population  is  still 
wasting  away,  the  effect  of  a  corrupt  commerce  in  old 
heathen  times,  still  greater  would  be  the  need  of  such  an 


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institution.  A  flourishing  community  of  some  kind  at 
the  Sandwich  Islands,  there  certainly  will  be  ;  and  the 
religious  influences  now  at  the  Islands  will  be  as  availa- 
ble for  that  community,  as  hereafter  developed,  with 
whatever  elements,  as  it  will  be  for  the  one  now 
existing. 

A  number  of  gentlemen  have  kindly  consented,  at  the 
request  of  the  Prudential  Committee  of  the  American 
Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions,  acting  for 
the  Trustees  of  the  College,  to  take  charge  of  the  funds 
contributed  in  this  country  for  the  Oahu  College,  (where 
the  donors  do  not  direct  them  to  be  remitted  directly  to 
the  Trustees  at  the  Islands;)  and  they  will  invest  such 
funds  in  the  United  States,  and  cause  the  interest  to  be 
remitted  annually  to  the  officer  of  the  corporation  legally 
authorized  to  receive  it.  The  Trustees  for  the  Fund, 
appointed  in  the  first  instance  by  the  Prudential  Commit- 
tee, will  fill  the  vacancies  occurring  in  their  own  number  ; 
and  they  will  be  authorized  to  transfer  the  investment  of 
the  funds  to  the  Sandwich  Islands  whenever  they  and  the 
Trustees  of  the  College  concur  in  the  opinion,  that  this 
can  be  safely  and  advantageously  effected. 

The  following  gentlemen  compose  the  Trustees  for  the 
Funds  to  be  invested  in  the  United  States ;  namely, — 

HENRY  HILL,  Esq.,  of  Boston,  Mass. 
PELATIAH  PERIT,  Esq.,  of  New  York  city. 
f  fy—ff~~fl  Gen.  WILLIAM  WILLIAMS,  of  Norwich,  Conn. 

Hon.  THOMAS  W.  WILLIAMS,  of  New  London,  Conn. 
,    -  -„     ^  HENRY  P.  HAVEN,  Esq ,  of  New  London,  Conn. 
JAMES  HUNNEWELL,  Esq.,  of  Charlestown,  Mass. 
WILLIAM  E.  DODGE,  Esq.,  of  New  York  city. 
ABNER  KINGMAN,  E^q.,  of  Boston,  Mass. 


Boston,  August,  1856. 


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AT  a  meeting  of  the  Trustees  of  Oahu  College,  held  at 
Honolulu,  Oct.  27,  1856,  the  following  resolutions  were 
adopted  with  reference  to  the  appointment  of  the  Trus- 
tees for  the  Funds  : 

Resolved,  1.  That  the  following  gentlemen  be  and  are 
hereby  appointed  Trustees,  to  receive,  take  charge  of, 
and  invest  any  funds  that  may  have  been,  or  hereafter 
may  be  contributed,  in  the  United  States,  for  the  endow- 
ment of  Oahu  College  ;  viz., 

HENR?  HILL,  Esq.,  of  Boston,  Mass. 
PELATIAH  PERIT,  Esq.,  of  New  York  city. 
Gen.  WILLIAM  WILLIAMS,  of  Norwich,  Conn. 
Hon.  THOMAS  W.  WILLIAMS,  of  New  London,  Conn. 
HENRY  P.  HAVEN,  Esq.,  of  New  London,  Conn. 
JAMES  HU>~XEWELL,  Esq.,  of  Charlestown,  Mass. 
WILLIAM  E.  DODGE,  Esq.,  of  New  York  city. 
ABNER  KINGMAN,  Esq ,  of  Boston,  Mass. 

Resolved,  2.  That  the  Trustees  appointed  by  the  fore- 
going resolution  be  and  are  hereby  authorized  to  fill  all 
vacancies  occurring  in  their  own  number;  and  that  they 
be  and  are  also  further  authorized  to  transfer  the  invest- 
ment of  any  funds  that  may  be  received  by  them  for  the 
endowment  of  Oahu  College,  to  the  Sandwich  Islands, 
whenever  they  and  the  Trustees  of  the  said  College  con- 
cur in  the  opinion,  that  this  can  be  safely  and  advanta- 
geously done. 

The  President  of  the  College  is  now  in  this  country 
to  act  for  the  Board  of  Trustees,  under  the  following 
commission  : 

Honolulu,  Sandwich  Islands,  Feb.  26,  1857. 
Know  all  persons  to  whom  these  presents  may  come, 
that  the   Rev.   Edward    Griffin   Beckwith,   President   of 
Oahu  CoHege,  is  duly  appointed   and  authorized  by  the 


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Board  of  Trustees  of  this  Institution  to  act  as  their  aorent 

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in  procuring  funds,  instructors,  and  books  for  the  same ; 
and  to  promote  its  general  interests  in  all  such  ways  as 
may  be  in  his  power,  during  his  contemplated  visit  to  the 
United  States. 

To  this  end,  the  Trustees  of  the  College  hereby  be- 
speak for  him  the  kind  regards  and  co-operation  of  all 
the  friends  of  education  and  religion  with  whom  he  may 
meet  during  his  mission. 

R.  ARMSTRONG, 

Sec'y  of  Board  of  Trustees. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Trustees  for  the  Fund,  held  in 
Boston,  May  28,  1857,  it  was 

Resolved,  That  the  Rev.  E.  G.  Beck  with,  President  of 
Oahu  College,  now  in  this  country  for  the  purpose  of  ob- 
taining an  endowment  for  that  new  and  important  Institu- 
tion at  the  Sandwich  Islands,  be  earnestly  commended, 
by  the  Trustees  for  the  Fund  it  is  proposed  to  raise  for 
the  College  in  this  country,  to  the  liberal  patronage  of 
those  who  would  promote  the  cause  of  education  at  the 
Islands,  and  thus  give  stability  and  perpetuity  to  the 
civil  and  Christian  institutions  which  have  been  so 
successfully  introduced  into  that  part  of  the  world  ;  with 
the  understanding,  that  the  investment  of  the  Fund  be 
made  under  the  direction  of  the  aforesaid  Trustees  resid- 
ing in  the  United  States. 

ABNER  KINGMAN,  Clerk. 

The  following  is  the  form  of  subscription,  which  it  is 
proposed  to  circulate  among  the  friends  of  this  enter- 
prise : 

We,  the  undersigned,  subscribe  the  several  sums  set  to 
our  respective  names,  towards  a  Fund  for  the  endowment 
of  the  Oahu  College,  in  the  Sandwich  Islands,  which 


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Fund  is  to  be  invested  under  the  direction  of  a  Board  of 
Trustees  in  the  United  States  appointed  for  this  purpose 
by  the  Trustees  of  the  College  ;  and  the  income  arising 
therefrom  to  be  annually  appropriated  to  the  support  of 
said  institution.  Provided  always,  that  no  portion  of  said 
subscriptions,  or  any  of  the  income  arising  therefrom, 
shall  be  used  for  the  promotion  of  any  system  or  course 
of  education  not  in  accordance  with  the  Sixth  Article  of 
the  present  Charter  of  the  said  College. 

Article  Sixth  of  the  Charter,  reads  as  follows  : 
"  Be  it  hereby  further  known,  that,  as  the  object  of  the 
Institution  is  the  training  of  youth  in  the  various  branches 
of  a  Christian  education,  and,  as  it  is  reasonable  that  the 
Christian  education  should  be  in  conformity  to  the  gen- 
eral views  of  the  founders  and  patrons  of  the  Institution, 
no  course  of  instruction  shall  be  deemed  lawful  in  said 
Institution,  which  is  not  accordant  with  the  principles  of 
Protestant  Evangelical  Christianity,  as  held  by  that  body 
of  Protestant  Christians,  in  the  United  States  of  America, 
which  originated  the  Christian  Mission  to  these  Islands, 
and  to  whose  labors  and  benevolent  contributions  the  peo- 
ple of  these  Islands  are  so  greatly  indebted." 

HENRY  HILL,  Esq.,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  Chairman  of  the 
Trustees  for  the  Fund,  is  Treasurer  of  said  Board  of 
Trustees,  and  all  remittances  for  the  College  can  be  made 
to  him,  at  his  office,  118  Milk  St. 

Boston,  June  1,  1857. 


